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Subject: Re: Interesting Article....
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Date: 19 Jan 91 06:44:52 GMT
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Thank you for posting this article.  I truly enjoyed it and found it to
be quite similar to my experiences.

As many of you on the net know, I am a non-Moslem with several Moslem
friends ( I didn't go out to find them - it just sort of happened that
way).  

As a Christian woman, I certainly identified with the remarks regarding
Moslem men feeling comfortable talking to non-Moslem women and feeling
exxxxtremely uncomfortable even in approaching Moslem women, hajib or not
hajib.

I have been truly disgusted with the behavior of SOME Moslem male classmates.
Now, mind you some Moslem men are extremely shy and don't even look at any
women when they speak.  Yet, they are those who treat Christian and Jewish
women with the utmost disrespect.  They behave as if God put us on this
earth for their perverted pleasures.  They chase us, whistle at us, and
torment us as no Christian man ever has.  For this reason, many girls on
campus are extremely prejudiced not just toward Moslems, but toward all
Middle Eastern men.

After these guys have finished humiliating us, they will then turn right
around and treat Arab Moslem girls as if they are the most chase and pristine
creatures around.

Let me give you an example.  My best friend was born Moslem, yet she 
practices Islam no more than I do.  One day, a group of Moslem men were
cursing terribly in my presence.  One of them then asked me, "aren't
you so-in-so's friend?"  
"Yes"  I replied.
"Well,"  he said, "People have been telling me not curse when I go into
the store where she works because 'there is an Arab girl working there.'"
Case and point.